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195 a BROOKLYN. NEW YORK CITY; JANUARY-16. .1928. TWO CENTS 16 PAGES DGE Wide Search Fails to Reveal Track of Her, $1,300,000 Loss by Fire At Bush Stores 4 Need Vast Sums For Repairing Faulty Schools Presidents Havana Speech Renews Life In Monroe Doctrine I. R.T.

Increase In Service Boon To Brooklyn New Feature Discontinues Splitting Trains at Museum Station. y. S. Finds Women Deluded by Recipes Guaranteeing Beauty WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 (U P).

The Federal Trade Commission has found that four men and a corporation In Chicago have, deluded women with so-called beauty preparations and haa ordered them to stop doing so. The respondents are Leroy A. King, John Weddell, William R. Durgln nand Cecil Middefield, operating under various trade names, and the Klng-Glbson Company, said to have handled the advertising and shared in the profits. Among the clalmg made by the men, and to be false, were that Dr.

Eagans Magic Gloves would removs unsightliness and soften the skin of all who wore them one night, and that Facial Film" would remove wrinkles. Serves Friendly Notice on League That American Re publics Are Able to Carry Out Their Own Destiny 1 in Their Own Way Our Obligation Alone to Maintain Ideals. HAVANA, Jan. 16. Cuba and Latin America generally heard with the keenest interest to-day the message that President Coolidge brought to the Pan-American conference.

i They heard the President say the American Republic, would carry out their destiny in their own way. i Mr. Coolidge added that our obligation is to maintain thd ideals of the western world and no one else can discharge it for us. i vThe declarations were wildly applauded. 1 President Coolidge will dominate P.

A Photo. The whereabouts of Frances St. John Smith, 18, a student ol Smith College end daughter of wealthy Manhattan broker, remained a mystery to-day despite offer of 81,000 reward for Information concerning her whereabouts, posted after she disappeared on Friday. No Trace bf Smith Girl Missing From College Search Widens in Effort to Solve Mystery of Her Disappearance-Case Similar to That of Miss Corbett NORTHAMPTON, Jan. 16 Every agency was in use to-day in an attempt to solve the mystery of the disappearance of Miss Frances St John Smith, attractive Smith College freshman, who has not been seen since Friday The girls disappearance waa Ilk-1 200,000 Bags of Sugar Ruined in Building at First Ave.

and Forty-third St. Six Hurt Downtown Policetuan Burned in Rescue in Willoughby St. Two hundred thousand bags of refined sugar owned by the Federal Sugar Company were Vnlned In a fire, at 1 oclock this afternoon In Bush Terminal Building No. 26, at First avenue and Forty-tlilrd street The sugar was stored on the fourth fifth and seventh floors and the damage was due principally to water. The sugar la valued at approximately 6 50 per bag, and the loss Is tl.S00.004 The fire was extinguished after an hours work by firemen under Chiefs Ward and Foley.

I W'lllougliby street Fire. Six persons W)e Injured or over, come by smoke Ir a fire which started in the cellar of 28 Willoughby street to-day, and spread rapidly through the strbctire, a three-atory frame building, to the roof. The top floor and the roof of CO Willoughby street were burned. The Injured: Mrs. Marlon Qanley, 22, of 28 Wil-loughhy street burnen on hands, fgee and body.

Her son, John Ganley, 8 years old, burned on hands, face and body. Patrolman Elmer Koestlng, Poplgr street' station, burned on hands face and Patrolman William Bachschmidt, Poplar steet station, burned on both hands. Flrbiban Johii'Lowry, Engine Company 207, punctuie wound of the back. Fireman Walter Shea, Engine Com piny 285, overcome by smoke. All, except Bachschmidt, were tuken to the hospital.

John Gauley and Shea were taken to Holy Family Hospital, and others to Cumberland Hospital. The fire started In the rear of the burned through a Hungarian restaurant on the ground floor at 28 Willoughby ptreet, and spread to the halls before it was discovered. A Miss Socia, living on the floor above the restaurant, was the first to notice the smoke. All the other tenants In the house were asleep. Miss Socia had tlma enough to lean from the window to shout for help, don a few garments and get to the street.

Her screams, as shs ran through the amoke-fllled halls, roused Mr. and Mrs. James Kiley. parents of Mrs. Ganlty, who llvsd on the secOpd floor.

Made Escape Cnhamfcd. The Klleys dressed hurriedly and went up through the skylight to the roof, crossed to 82 Willoughby street and vrpade their way to the street, unharmed. Patrolman Koesting had heard the screams of Miss Socia. He turned In the fire alarm and ran Into the hull-way of the burning building. The lrst floor apartment was empty.

He ran out through the smoke and reached the second floor. Mrs. Ganleys Cloth.es were aflame when Koestlng broks Into the apartment, and her babys crib was afire. The policeman beat out the flames on the mother's dress and seized the child. The Infant was already burned.

Koestlng smothered the flames on Its clothing with his hands, then started down the stairs, leading the mother by the hand and carrying the child In his arms By this time he, too, was painfully burned and hla uniform was afire. Policeman Collapses. Koestlng managed to get to the street with Mrs. Ganley and her baby, despite the dense smoke In the but as handed them over to soon as he the firemen, (Continued on Page 8.) Committee Report Mayor Puts Blame Board of Education. to on Gross Waste Charged Bronx Building Adjoins Zoo, One Complaint.

Hundreds of thousand of dollars must be spent by the city In repairing faulty schools, a special committee told the Mayor to-day In a report In which Brooklyn and Queens school buildings supplied much of the evidence for the fault found with the Bureau of Construction and Maintenance of the Board of Education. The committee consists of LeRoy P. Ward, architect, John J. Leddy, builder, and James J. Summers, engineer.

It was appointed last May by Mayor Walker as the result controversy between William H. Gompert, then architect and superintendent of scflool construction, and Aldermanlc President Joseph V. McKee. The committee held hearings surveying the work of the Bureau of Construction and Inspected thirty-four achools. Toward tbs completion of Its work Mr.

Gompert, head of the bureau of con structlon, resigned. Walls Wrongly Built. The report finds that the walls of schools are wrongly built, that some architectural features are a waste of money, that not enough steel Inspec. tors are used and that insufficient funds are allotted to keep the schools in repair. The moat Unusual of the complaints is that ths Board of Education located A school In the Bronx practically adjoining a private soo.

housing wild animals Th? report recommends that either the zoo be removed or a fence built between the school and the zoo. Among the committee's recommendations la one to the effect that the Bureau of Construction be removed from Its present offices on Flatbush avenue extension. It suggests that the present main office of the Board of Education, at 500 Park avenue, be sold, and that all the branches of the departments be housed In one cen-trully-located bul-'- Some of the outsanding recom mendatlons are: The committee recommends that an architect of proven executive ability and with many years of actual field experience, be selected (Continued on Page I Lindy Isolated On Hunting Tour BALBOA, Jan. 18. For the first time since the beginning of his present tour Col.

Charles A. Lindbergh Is completely isolated and will attend no celebrations nor will be he In communication wth the press or the outside world In any way. With a group of friends and aviators stationed in Panama. Colonel Lindbergh for the next few days will continue his hunting tour and vlrtt a hotel far up in the mountains owned by Pop' White As the guest of Monnlche, the colonel will visit a volcano larger than the peak he used as a land mark on his trip from Coala Rica Citizens have prepared a full two-day programme Tor the flyer when he returns to Balboa, although he haa given no sign of when that will be. Prial Opposes Berry Pension Plan Deputy Controller Frank J.

Prial. speaking as president of the Civ 11 Service Forum, was the chief to-day of his own chiefs proposal, Controller Berry's pension plan. Prial told members of the Board of Estimate, sitting as the committee of the whole, that If city employes had known the plan was In prospect they would not have been so enthusiastically for the Walker administration. Who would have 'he said, that In the fall of 1925, when We were asked to put out of off.ee the then chief executive and to ele.t the present officials, they would jeopardise the pension sjstem a year after the new board was Installed? If that could happen among friends, what would happen when we re not with friends? There was no platform pledge, for If there were, then maybe some of us would not be houltlng so much now Prial said the Controllers proposal, which la to place all clt pensions on a 4 per cent hosts, was even worse than the plan ottered during the Queens Benefits, Too i Cart Added and Headway Cut in Non-Rush Hours. Further details were being worked out to-day on plans for the biggest in crease in Interborough Rapid Transit Company subway service sine 1828.

The increase In service, which Involves 8,000 car miles and 28,000 can a day, will eliminate splitting trains at Brooklyn Museum station and will culminate In extension of the South Ferry express service to Brooklyn. Some of the plans were announced by the State Transit Commission fol-fowlng a aeries of conferences between the commission and the company. Ths Brooklyn and Queens features of the Improved service will begin Saturday. On that day, with the extension of the Corona 11ns through to Flushing, the Corona line trains will be Increased from eight to nine cars In length. The Astoria line trains will be Increased from six to seven cars.

The Interval betw een non-rush hour trains at midday will be decreased from fifteen to twelve minutes and from twelve minutes to ten minutes, on the Corona and Astoria branches, respectively. After 8 P. M. the intervals will be put from fifteen to twelve minutes on each bransh. On.

Monday a new and (aster Schedule will be UUt In operation on the Broadway -Seventh avenue line. What Is regarded as more Important foe Brooklynites, all West Farms trains will be operated through to Flatbush avenue. This will eliminate the turning of West Farms trains at Atlantic avenue. it will also eliminate ths splitting of Broadway trains at ths Brooklyn Museum station. Ths West Farms trains will go to Flatbush avenue.

All the Yan Cortlandt Park trains will go right through to New Lots avenue Instead of halting fob a split at the Brooklyn Museum station. On Monday, Feb. 6, Fourth and Lexington avenue express service will result. In many traina being sent through to Brooklyn Instead of being turned at South Ferry. The practice of turning trains at South Ferry rather than sending them through to Brooklyn will also be discontinued during the evening hours for a period yet to be decided upon.

Walker Js Ready To Name Justices Mayor Walker is prepared to carry out the direction of the Appellate Division, which has held he must appoint two additional justces to the Court of Special Sessions. It was learned on Rood authority to-day at City Hall no appeal Is to be taken from the Appellate ii-aion decision. Magistrate Harry Howard Dale. Patrick E. Callahan and Nathan Sweedler have been prominently mentioned lor the places.

Attorney Sells Oranges To Help Aged Father When Harry Bayer, 85, of 841 Alabama avenue, waa fined 81 fur selling orange! yesterday at Saratoga and' Sutter avenues, ha told Magistrate Reynolds In New -jrsey avenue court ho was an attoritey-at. law, but that he did not have the money to pay the fine. If you are an attorney, why do you sell oranges the magistrate asked. I did It for my father, who Is 72 years old. He waa 111 yesterday and since the fruit Is perlshabla 1 tried to sell It for him.

Well, the fine Is $1," the magistrate Insisted. Baver said ha had only 80 cAnts Sentence was then suspended. Finnegan Girl Held, Still Denies Shooting Helen Finnegan, 88 yeara old, of 188 Nevlna street, denied again today that she shot John J. OConnell, 85, of 448 Warren street. In the back a week ago last night Despite her denial she waa held In 25,000 ball by Magistrate Maguire In Adame street court on a charge of felonloui assault.

Adjournment wae taken to -Jan. 26, at which time O'Connell, who It In Cumberland street hospital, Is expected to be suf. flclently recovered to appear as complainant Chamberlin On Third Attempt For World Record Both He anti Williams Show Strain of Last Flight -Weather Unfavorable. ROOSEVELT FIELD, Jan. 16-Undismayed by two-prevlous failures, Clarence D.

Chamberlin and Roger Q. Williams began their third attempt within a 'week to eet a new worlds record for sustained flight. The flyers left Roosevelt Field at 12-62 22 P. M. (official time) In the huge Bellanca monoplane they used In their previous efforts, owned by A.

R. Martlne, Wall Street banker. As they climbed Into ths cockpit to begin their third attempt both men still bora evidence of last weeks flights. Instead of resting they had spent most of their time since Saturday in working on the plane and their faoes were drawn. They were In good spirits, hiw-wer.

Everything seems to be In perfect shape, Chamberlin said juat before the ztttrj. Well surely make It this time The New York-to-Germany flyer Is scheduled to Jeae here Thursday on an air lecture tour of the country. If he and Williams succeed in setting a new endurance mark, they would not return to earth until late Wednesday or Wednesday night. Capt. Walter Bender, operations officer at Mitchel Field, conferred with Martin, owner of the plane and with the two pilots regarding weather reports, which were unfavorable and indicated rain and sleet early tomorrow morning The aviators decided fb go In spite of the unfavorable reports.

Mrs. Povlin Ends Life With Bullet; Husband Sees Act Louise Povlin, 26, whose body wad found In bed In a furnished room at 858 Ocean porkway early to-day with a bullet In her breast was pronounced a suicide shortly afternoon by Assistant Medical Examiner Romeo Auerbach. Police at first cloaked the details of her death In secrecy, but a statement was Issued later that she was the wife of Dr. Shepherd Povlin. an Interne at the Coney Island Hospital, and that fie was present In the apartment at the time of the shooting.

Detectives revealed that she left a lengthy note, saying that a relative of Dr. Povlin waa In a way" cguse of her death. Dr. Povlin awoke this morning to find his wife busy writing, propped up with pillows, according to detectives. He stepped from the bed to go to another room.

Aa he neared the door he glanced In a mirror and saw hla wife pull a revolver from under a pillow, place It ag tst breast and pull the trigger, they continued. Dr. Povlin rushed to his wife's side and urged her to toll what had caused her act, the deteetlves au- but she became unconscious at once. Dr. Povlin said married Mrs.

Povlin more than a year ago at Little Rock, knowing then that he had been married at the a. of fifteen, and had a child ten yeara old who la now In that city, the detectives said. One line of her farewell note said aha could not stand living her husband, they added. The note continued that her alster In Little Rock was to be notified, but not her mother, except through the slater, nnd asked that Dr. Povlin's sister also be Informed, Mrs.

Povlin was employed In the Walgreen drug store In the Paramount Building, Manhattan, and alBo as a private detective of the Chicago office of the Harrison De ttctlve Agency, assigned to New York. ths conference until he departs to. morrow. His was one of ths two speeches scheduled for to-day. Ths other was by President Machado of of Cuba.

Ths addresses were broadcast by thd greatest International network evee attempted. There was a complete hook-up between Havana and thd North American continent and an. other to South America- The largest Installation of microphones aver known In Cuba waa placed In tha National Theatre for speeches, -Golden Rule as Chart. The President to-day, Jn the tlcnal Theatre, told delegates of twenty-one American countries that ths Golden Rule and consideration, co-operation, friendship and "char tty' chart tbs course of the United States and other American gepeb. Ilea.

President Machado's speech Ye fleeted' the under-surface attitude o( the republics below the Rio Grande. Cuba's sentiments, he said, are: That nations here represented, though politically separated, should be united In the common name of America, some not allowing them, selves to be controlled by unjustified prejudices, others avoiding any dem onstratlon that might result in an Involuntary threat. Machado took occasion also to stress Cuba's complete Independence. The Cuban Presidents first sen tence In his speech contained a tribute to the United States and to the Illustrious person of Calvin Coolidge, Chief Executive of tha greatest of all democracies. President Coolidge preached jug tlce, equity and respect, that lent a new vitality to the Monroe Doctrine.

Many regarded hla caution as a notice to the League of Nations not to Interfere In Pan-American affairs. The existence of this conference, held for the consideration of measures Of purely American concern. involves no antagonism toward any Wither section of the world or any other organization. President Cool, idge said. It means that the Independent republics of the Wester Hemisphere, animated by tha same Ideals, enjoying the common blueings of freedom and peace, realize that there are many matters of mutual Interest and Importance which can best he investigated and resolved through the medium of such friendly contact end negotiation as Is necessary for co-operative action.

To Maintain Ideals. We realize that one of the most Important services which we can render humanity, the one for which we are peculiarly responsible, la to maintain the Ideals of our Western orld. That Is our obligation. No one else can discharge It for us "It It It to be met, we must meet, It ourselves. We must Join togetheo in assuring conditions under which our republics will hav the freedom nnd the responsibility of working out their own destiny In their own way.

The Presidents speech made no reference to the recent ordering of more United States marines tv Nicaragua. Consideration, cooperation, friend-ship and charity, he designated aa the highest Lw In International dealings, adding: If we are to experience a new era In our affaire, It will ba because the world recognizes and Uvea In accordances with this spirit. Its most complete expression Is the Golden Rule. The Presidents message to no table gathering of Pan- 4merlcan delegates hers carried aa Its mam theme peace and co operation among the Americas. He advocated stronger ties of business nnd com miinicatlon, and favored development of aviation as a means of strengthening the bonds among the sister republics of the north and south.

Mr. Cooltdges address, regarded aa one of the strongest pleas for friendship among the Pan-American countries, praised the democracy of these nations and held that next to our attachment to the principle of self-government has been our attachment to tho policy of peace. i The President declared the Amer-lean republics had always ganged their military establishments Jo tha needs of self-protection but never for the purpose of overawing of subjugating other nations. Calder Favors Hoover, Silence From Livingston Ex-U. 8.

Senator William M. Calder came out openly to-day In favor of Secretary of Commerce Herbert C. Hoovers candidacy for the 1928 Republican Presidential nomination to succeed President Coolidge. 1 favor the nomination of Mr. Hoover Calder bald In a statement which he authorized for publication.

The ex-Federal lawmaker la the first prominent member of the Kings Comity Republican organization to declare tor Hoover. His declaration came to-day on the heels of yesterday's meeting of Under Secretary of the Treasury Ogden I. Mills and other friends of Hoover who met at the Hotel Roosevelt, Manhattan, to organize a movement to line up New York State support for the 8ecVetary of Commerce. Ex-Senator Calder was one of those who had been scheduled to attend Hoover meeting, but was unable to be presezit. it Is explained, because of Illness Consequently he was asked to-day whether It meant that he was for Hoover.

Calder explained that yesterdays meeting was not an organization matter It had nothing to do with the organization, he explained It was purely a meeting of a few groups who propose to bring Mr. Holers good qualities before the people Republican County Leader J. A. Livingston, who is known to favor an uninstructed delegation to the Republican National Convention, refused tf-day to comment on the movement by friends of Hoover to line up New York 8tate in his behalf. I have nothing to say, said the county leader.

De Steiguer Due to Succeed Plunkett Admiral lxuis de Steiguer is to succeed Resr Admiral Charles P. Plunkett os commandant of the Navy Yard, according to word which reached the reservation from Washington to-day. More Fraud Charges Made In Fare Election Case WASHINGTON, Jan 16 (U P) -Additional charges of fraud and corruption in the Senatorial election of William Vare, of Pennsylvania, were contained In a bill of particulars filed In the Senate to-day by William Wilson, Democrat who la contesting Vare seat. Wilson alleged in his new complaint that the Republican organization entered a conspiracy whereby campaign funds were concealed, that dead persons were voted and other frauds committed Fire in Fulton Bank 1 Building Attracts Crowd Fire in room 382 of the Fulton Ravings Bank Building at 376 Fulton street at 2 16 oclock this afternoon attracted a big crowd. The office occupied by Hector M.

Cur-hen, attorney, was flooded with water In an effort of firemen to get at the blaze which was In the ceiling The damAge was slight. Police reserves were called out to guard tlv bank Hangs Self in Office. David Greenbaum, 40 years old, was found hanging from a transom In his real estate office at 88 Park row, Manhattan, to-day. He lived at 20 West Seventy-second street, Manhattan. Employe, said he had been melancholy.

An ambulance surgeon from Broad Street Hospital said the man had been dead some hours, qed to that of Miss Alice Corbett, who disappeared from the college on Friday. Nov. II, 1825. and has never been Been since. The coincidence ol both girls disappearing on Friday, the thirteenth, caused Considerable comment.

Worried Over Studies. Miss Smith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. St John Smith, of 128 East Seventieth street, Manhattan, had been somewhat despondent over her scholastic standing. It was agtd.

While her work waa not exactly unfavorable, according to college authorities, she bad worried considerably. She waa naturally shy, school frldnds said, and this coupled with worry over her grades may have led to her disappearance. Fearing she might have committed suicide by drowning in Paradise Pond, the. waters were dragged yesterday. There was no trace of the girl.

Posses searched nearby hills without huccesa The mother and father, who arrived yesterday to aid In the search, said their daughter waa not athletically Inclined and doubted the theory that she may have wandered Into the woods and become lost. Miss Smith's absence was not (Continued on Page 2 Five Members of Aspirin Gang Get 20-Year Sentences Five members of the "aspirin gang' to-day were given twenty year prison sentences by County Judge Alonso G. McLaughlin. A sixth received term of from ten to twenty years, another was given an indefinite term and sentence was put over until to-morrow for the eighth. The fhe are William TJiylor, Max Price, James Clarke.

Harry Walsh, and John Traced John Raffo waa given ten to twenty years William Smith drew the indefinite term. Sentence of Eugene Steiner was nut over. The men were found guilty of stealing $92,000 in aspirin from the Manhattan warehouse wf the Bayer Company a year ago. The loot was recovered several weeks later in a garage at 103 Wal north street this borough. New York Central, 160 off 44.

Packard Motors. 5814. oft Radio Corporation, 89. off 1. Standard Oil of N.

off U. 8. Rubber. 59. off U.

a Steel. 144. up 44. Foreign exchances were slightly weak Sterling opened at 84 87 5-16 off 1-16: French francs opened at 8 93 cents, off Belgtsn belga. 189844 cents, off 4.

Italian lire, 5 28 cents, was unchanged. The grain markets were slightly Irregular. March wheat selling at 128. off 44 Chicago cotton prices were higher, March selling at up 10 points. Slow-Moving Market Under Further Attack The heaviness which characterized the stock market during Saturdays trading was again in evidence in the early dealing to-day.

Professional traders were of the opinion that the market is in an over-bought condition and was cause for further attack on the general list Experienced observers appear to he cautious in making commitments on either side untU a more definite trend la manifest. Call money renewed at 4 per cent prices: Abraham and Straus. IllS. UP Allied Chemical. 154, up American Can, 7244.

off 44. Baltimore and Ohio, 11544. off 44. Brooklvn-Manhattan Transit, 55. Consolidated Gas, 12144.

off (4-Erl Railroad, 62. off ft. General Electric, 18214. off 44. General Motors, 18144, off 14-Hudson Motors, 7744, off In ternaUonal.

Nickel. 82, oft Continued on Pag E).